#28 A Rebel Princess & A Woman Obsessed With The Truth (Sophia Duleep Singh & Marion Stokes)

Happy Podcast day listeners! It's Friday and that means we are back with your weekly dose of history and laughs. Enjoy the commute just a little bit more with our series of binge worthy biographies. All the stories your history teacher never told you. This week's stories lost to time are:Annie tells the story of an exiled Sikh Princess with no kingdom, no parents and not much to fill her time but social functions and parties. All that changes when she discovers the Suffragettes and joins the campaign to gain the vote.Then Andrea delves into the history of Philadelphia, a local  librarian is interested in change and her links to Communism come under the gaze of her employers and then the FBI. She looks forward to a quiet retirement, until the day she treats herself to a few of the latest gadgets, a Betamax Video Recorder and an Apple Mackintosh computer. The purchase leads to a thirty year project that would consume her and her whole family for three decades.Check out the Internet Archive link to her astonishing project HERE: https://archive.org/details/marionstokesvideoAndrea used these sources for this episode:https://allthatsinteresting.com/marion-stokeshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-television-news-archivehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_StokesAnnie used these sources for this episode:https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/sophia-duleep-singh/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/sophia-duleep-singh/Where you can find us:https://www.instagram.com/mostlyunsung/https://www.facebook.com/share/16J4vuMy1h/https://www.tiktok.com/@[email protected] you next Wednesday!